Patent & IP news for May 12, 2016

Merpel visits the EU IPO from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Having visited the European Patent Office and the (not yet existing) Unified Patents Court, Merpel now completes a trilogy of visitations of European intellectual property institutions by heading over to the Office Formerly Known as ...

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Around the blogs from ipkitten.blogspot.com

This Internkat has been trapped inside almost all week by the dreary, unsummery London weather - a perfect opportunity to catch up with some highlights from the IP blogosphere.


Should charities enforce IP? This question, and ...

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President Obama Signs Defend Trade Secrets Act from www.patentdocs.org

By Josh Rich -- This afternoon, President Obama signed the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA") into law, creating a new Federal cause of action for misappropriation of trade secrets. The new law is the ...

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Public Health Advocates Urge WHO Action On Alternative R&D Financing from www.ip-watch.org

Public health advocates last week told World Health Organization delegates they must act quickly to save the lives of poor populations suffering from less common diseases for which there is no research and development funding ...

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The biggest problem for the Oracle v. Google retrial: Judge Alsup's reality distortion field from www.fosspatents.com

As an observer of two major disputes that started in the Northern District of California, Apple v. Samsung and Oracle v. Google, I have repeatedly taken issue with Judge Lucy Koh's unwilligness to invalidate ...

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Medical Records System Patent Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s medical records system patent encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "The ...

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Clinical Drug Trial Patents Invalid Under 35 U.S.C. § 101 from docketreport.blogspot.com

The court granted defendant's motion to dismiss because the asserted claims of plaintiff’s clinical drug trial patents encompassed unpatentable subject matter and found that the claims were directed toward an abstract idea. "[T ...

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Does the UPC spell disaster for the EPO Boards of Appeal? from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Merpel has been thinking a little more about the announcement of recruitment of judges for the Unified Patent Court, and now foresees some unpleasant consequences.

According to Article 17(2) of the Unified Patent Court ...

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Open Access and its Role in the Development of Science and Technology from patentlyo.com

I am enjoying the new paper out of Trento (Italy) Law & Technology Group on the benefits of Open Access (OA) to publications and data and its role in scientific development: OA’s main function is ...

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Federal Circuit: Software and Data Structures Are Not Inherently Abstract from patentlyo.com

by Dennis Crouch Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp (Fed. Cir. 2016) In a rare win for a software patentee, the Federal Circuit has rejected a lower court ruling that Enfish’s “self-referential” database software and ...

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The Deal of the Century: An Interview with Ed Fast, Former Canadian Trade Minister from www.iposgoode.ca

The Deal of the Century: An Interview with Ed Fast, Former Canadian Trade Minister The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is the largest trade agreement ever, made between 12 nations comprising 40% of the world’s economy ...

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Federal Circuit finds two patents directed to specific database structures eligible for patenting, not abstract ideas from ipspotlight.com

A new Federal Circuit decision gives software patent applicants some insight into when software can be patent-eligible. In Enfish Corporation v. Microsoft LLC (Fed. Cir. May 12, 2016), the court reversed a district court’s ...

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Jordan Sigale, Dunlap Codding Director, Quoted in USA Today re Oracle, Google Court Clash from dunlapcodding.com

“Two of tech’s biggest behemoths are slugging it out in court,” reported Jon Swartz in an article in USA Today on May 11, 2016. After noting that billions of dollars of damages are at ...

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Guest Post: 35 USC 289—Grant of Certiorari in Samsung v Apple = The Opportunity for a Better-Crafted Standard for Awarding Total profits from patentlyo.com

Guest post by Gary S. Griswold.  Mr. Griswold is a Consultant residing in Hudson, WI and was formerly President of and Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for 3M Innovative Properties Company. The paper reflects the views ...

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Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. (Fed. Cir. 2016) from www.patentdocs.org

By Michael Borella -- Some things are rare. A visit from Halley's comet . . . the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series . . . a season of Game of Thrones without a major character's death . . . and a Federal ...

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